Teaching history without causing offence

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a bit about

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Anglo-Saxons and things that I'm

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probably never gonna use

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um I think it's a little bit to try and

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be as inoffensive as possible like if

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you learn the easy history as opposed to

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the stuff that you know you if you have

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to learn about

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the UK and its recent history yeah

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there's good parts and bad parts yeah

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exactly yeah and for a teacher it's

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probably easier to not talk about any of

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it I love practicing teachers because

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they get it from above yeah they answer

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to someone and then that someone goes

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well I could we could look at a

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curriculum that makes people think or we

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could get a curriculum that makes people

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learn who the Egyptian pharaohs were

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yeah we have a kind of colonial

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responsibility backpack I'll tell my

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students that we sort of could carry

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around but some people just reject it

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and won't discuss it others talk about

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it a bit but are very defensive and

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other people are like yeah we need to

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own this and sort of and then move on if

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you could like theoretically take

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something from Indian culture into

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Indian people and put it into like

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British culture rich people what was

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like a big highlight that you take from

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from that that would improve British

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culture British people maybe their

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emphasis on Hospitality

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they seem quite hospitable they seem

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very hard working as well as people good

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answer they're very committed